In the United States, it had been common practice since the late 1960s no to suppress natural forest fires. The “let it burn” policy assumed that forest fire would burn themselves out quickly, without causing much damage. However, in the summer of 1988, forest fires in Yellowstone, the most famous national park in the country, burned for more than two months and spread over a huge area, encompassing more than 800,000 acres. Because of the large scale of the damage, many people called for replacing the “let it burn” policy with a policy of extinguishing forest fires as soon as they appeared. Three kinds of damage caused by the “let it burn” policy were emphasized by critics of the policy.
First, Yellowstone fires caused tremendous damage to the park’s trees and other vegetation. When the fires finally died out, nearly one third of Yellowstone’s land had been scorched. Trees were charred and blackened from flames and smoke. Smaller plants were entirely incinerated. What had been a national treasure now seemed like a devastated wasteland.
Second, the park wildlife was affected as well. Large animals like deer and elk were seen fleeing the fire. Many smaller species were probably unable to escape. There was also concern that the destruction of habitats and the disruption of food chains would make it impossible for the animals that survived the fire to return.
Third, the fires compromised the value of the park as a tourist attraction, which in turn had negative consequences for the local economy. With several thousand acres of the park engulfed in flames, the tourist season was cut short, and a large number of visitors decided to stay away. Of course, local businesses that depended on park visitors suffered as a result.
Both the reading and the speech discuss about forest fires and the "let it burn" policy. The reading implies that the policy should not let the fires burn itself. however, the speaker strongly disagrees and thinks forest fire a natural ecological cycle.
First, the reading tells a story about the forest fire in 1988, giving some figures about the damages. Instead, the speaker disagrees. To be more specific, she argues that all the others fires are not as huge as this times. Also, the heat from the fire can have the positive effect for plants to reproduce.
Secondly, the passage says that wildlife, habitats and food chains will be destructed by uncontrolled fires. however, the listing strongly denies the article. Although the trees be destroyed, small vegetations under trees have opportunities to gain the sunlight and become more flourish. After that, small animals will come again, causing the stronger food chains.
Finally, the reading mentions that the forest fire compromises the value of the park and decrease tourists. Yet, the professor contradicts the article. Actually, the fire will not occur each year and becomes a big problem to the local economy.
In conclusion, the professor significantly refutes the three ideas about forest fire in the paragraphs. she states that the fire is part of nature process and will not affect economy a lot.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 17.0 30.3222958057 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 0.0 5.01324503311 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1177.0 1373.03311258 86% => OK
No of words: 223.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.27802690583 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.86434787811 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50148661786 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.596412556054 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 349.2 419.366225166 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 21.2450331126 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 25.022177663 49.2860985944 51% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 73.5625 110.228320801 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.9375 21.698381199 64% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 7.06452816374 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 4.19205298013 286% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.207192853584 0.272083759551 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.065154505317 0.0996497079465 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0731051944035 0.0662205650399 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115626692259 0.162205337803 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.102781201976 0.0443174109184 232% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.3589403974 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.28 53.8541721854 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.75 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.17 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.498013245 69% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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